Re: pasting license text into debian/copyright

[Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>]

On Saturday, 16 September 2017 23:13:04 CEST Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> Changing a long free-form text file into a deb822 multiline block, when
> you want to use the "machine-readable" format.

You can do this with cme.

Either launch cme GUI with 'cme edit dpkg-copyright'. You can paste the 
license content in the tree widget on the left side. See [1] for more details

Or you can try the fuse interface:

$ cd pkg_dir
$ mkdir fuse
$ cme fusefs dpkg-copyright -fuse-dir fuse/
$ ls fuse
Comment  Copyright  Disclaimer  Files  Files-Excluded  Format  Global-License  
License  Source  Upstream-Contact  Upstream-Name
$ ls fuse/License/
LGPL-2.1
$ cat fuse/License/LGPL-2.1/text 
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
[snip]
$ mkdir fuse/License/Test
$ echo "yada yada" > fuse/License/Test/text
$ fusermount -u fuse
$ git diff
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index b631507..913af34 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -18,3 +18,6 @@ License: LGPL-2.1
  .
  On Debian systems, the complete text of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser 
General
  Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1'.
+
+License: Test
+ yada yada

See the diff above. cme takes care of indenting and inserting '.' where 
needed.

HTH

[1] https://github.com/dod38fr/config-model/wiki/Managing-Debian-packages-with-cme#maintaining-debian-copyright-file
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